The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-30

| the railroad companies are becoming the best
temperance societies we have. If empoye is
| too fond of intoxicating liquors the management
| has an easy way of dropping him from the pay
roll
There is said to be serious obstacle to the
Baltimore d Ohio Express Company getting
to the Vandalia 1t is by means easy
matter of the officers of the B. & O. ex-
press were led to believe. The B. e o is max
| ing arrangements to continue run the L. /.
| D. Il s. and Wabash between Indianapolis and
| st. Louis.
In changing the gauge of the Toledo, ST. Louis
& Kansas City railroad last Sunday, Owen Nc
Sweeny. champion track-iayer OF Indiana. won
first prize With force of thirty men he
changed FIVE miles and eighty-four feet. COM
mencing at o'clock A. NJ and completing the
work at 1910 P. NJ. being two hours ahead of all
foremen between Toledo and Frankfort
classification committee of the Central
Traffic Association is to be established in Chica-
go to which all changes in classiicatio and al
ditions will be referred. A similar romm:uee
will be established at New York THIS will be ,
great relief to the general freight agents. who
for some years past have had to leave their work
every few days to attend classification meeting.
Charles Nelson, general superintendent of tho
Vandalia and the G., Fl, & d. lines, has issued q
notice that all freight depots. warehouses and
shops on their line will be closed on the Fourth
of July, and auch of the employees as can be
spared ir other branches Of service will observe
it as holiday. Employees and their families
will be passed over the road free between all
points.
The Dayton & Chicago railroad formerly
Dayton e Toledo) and the Dayton & Ironton
railroad having been consolidated, will be oper-
ated hereafter the Dayton. Fort Wayne &
Chicago railway. The following officers are con-
tinued: W. B. Williams, general freight and
passenger agent, Dayton, o.; N P. Ramsey.
auditor, Dayton O., (also in charge of service
department.
The second-class rate war out of ST. Louis
seems to be gathering strength. Since the Bee
line and the PENNSYLVANIA met the rate made by
ha q e Ne huSin a o. K,
has dropped it's rate to SIC. 70. The Pennsylva :
MIA has announced similar reduction to Roch-
ester. Buffalo and other points, but the Lake
Shore and the New York Central decline to pro
rate with them.
meeting of the Union Railway Company
will be called within short time, and c. G.
Waite will doubtless be present and have some
thing to say he becoming member OF the board
through his connection with the Terre Haute 81
Indianapolis road. The meeting is looked for
ward to with more than ordinary interest. as the
troubles which have been long standing between
the c.. H. & d. road and the Union Railway
Company will come up for settlement The
Union Railway Company now has In its posses
sion considerable sum of money held back from
the sale of tickets rental, a much larger sum
than the c., H e. d. people think it entitled to.
The c., Fl. & d. people seem to exert them
selves to have the trains of the Pennsylvania
road their St Louis division promptly
and satisfactorily. The fact is that the c., 81. &
D. people need the business of the Pennsylvania
lines to maintain the property fully as much as
the Pennsylvania needs the Vandalia to reach
st. Louis. Naturally there will oe some move
toward retrenchment of expenses, and what
thinning out there is of men is likely to be made
on the Vandalia, as the C.. ii. 81 u. company
know their own men, and of course give them
the preference. With the early improvement in
business from the movement OF the wheat crop
and other fall traffic, however it is highly prob
able that there will be plenty of work for all the
men in the freight service.
knowing ones think that the T.. B. e W. has
bright future ahead. They argue that man
who has done for thea Philadelphia & Reading
what Austin Corbin has, will, when he turns his
attention westward, mako great property out
of the l., B. e. W. through its connection both
the east and west. Under Mr.. Corbin's
financial methods the p. & R. has been lifted
out of the mire, and is shortly to become one of
the great railroads of this country. The road is
operating expenses and fixed charges, as they
will be after the REORGANIZATION is perfected. In
the month of May the net earnings of the road
were over 500. 900 in excess of the net earnings
of the mileage of the corresponding May
in 1885, and June promises more favorable
exhibit
The Decline people have issued their instruc-
tons regarding the special baggage delivery,
which goes into effect tomorrow. The rates
either for receiving delivering baggage at
each of the cities where the system takes effect
will be as follows: Cleveland and Detroit. 2o
Buffalo, % cents per piece three-mile limit, 30
cents piece beyond Cincinnati so cents per
piece two-and one half mile limit, % cents each
additional piece; ST. Louis 80 cents first piece
and % cents each additional piece in regular
baggage delivery limits; Chicago, 80 cents per
piece in city limits. % cents per additional pieces
Indianapolis. % cents per piece inside city
limits; New York, Boston and Saratoga, 80 cents
per piece. The same rates will prevail on the
other Vanderbilt lines.